blast partially destroys russia s prized crimea bridge. also ahead, after months of legal sparring, the clock ticks for elon musk to close the deal on twitter. and a toddler miraculously rescued after his parents car is stolen with him trapped inside. you re in the cnn newsroom. a prized achievement of vladimir putin, an apparently target of his ukrainian tormenters. this right here is the exact moment the russian president suffered his latest blow in his war on ukraine, the blast from an apparent truck bomb knocking out three of the four lanes of the bridge that links russia to crimea, its annexed territory in the south. now a huge bottleneck chokes a critical supply route for putin s war in ukraine. ukraine hand sn t claimed responsibility, but it is celebrating it. ukraine will issue this commemorative postal stamp with a nod to the titanic. one senior ukrainian official couldn t ignore that the explosion came just hours after putin s 70th birthday. happy birthday
you don t get to have it. evil exists. evil dwells in people. it was a night like this, just before halloween. a killing that still haunts. i m found him just lying there. couldn t feel a pulse. the young dad engaged to be married, dead on the ground. they determined that it was a murder. and here s what made this mystery so chilling. the possible suspects were all in costume. the cowboy and the penguin, everybody is dressed as somebody else. how are you going to be able to identify people? cowboy? penguin? costumed killer? sounds like something ripped from the pages of stephen king. but in this case, the horror was real. we had this piece of a costume, we didn t know what it was. a halloween crime that will send shivers down your spine. i was terrified. something had happened. i didn t know what. hello. welcome to dateline. just days before halloween, joel lovelien and his fiancee, heather eastling, headed to a local bar with costume-clad party-goers
reports roughly half the company s 7,500 employees now out of work. four days to go until the crucial midterm election. live coverage all night tuesday here on abc. and tonight here in the key senate race in pennsylvania, the major headline. after dr. oz appeared for years on the oprah show, tonight oprah endorsing john fetterman instead, and you ll hear from her. plus, former presidents obama and trump both in that state this weekend, showing the stakes in this race, now a dead heat. eva pilgrim in pennsylvania. the turnout factor tonight. republicans need a net gain of just one senate seat to take control of the senate. well, tonight, several key states where the races are now tied up. this is now all about the final ground game. rachel scott with the new numbers, and they are close. north korea tonight flying dozens of fighter jets near the border with south korea. south korea s response amid concerns north korea may now be preparing to conduct an underground nucle
states, canada and around the world, i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. president biden is at home in delaware after a campaign swing to three western states. ahead, why he says this year s mid-term elections are the most important in decades. plus, chinese leader xi says they will take taiwan by force. a live report from beijing plus reaction from taipei. elon musk changes his mind when it comes to offering peace for ukraine. we ll look at the decision and huge implications in the war against russia. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with ken brunhuber. > . president biden has just wrapped up a rare four-day campaign tour across the west costa head of the critical mid-term elections. much is at stake as it tries to hold on in congress and win key local and state elections. biden s approval is low across polls fueling worries that it could weigh down the party at the ballot box. stumping alongside the most vulnerable candidates. the pre
investigate the hunter biden matter. this could essentially close off that avenue for prosecution by reaching a plea agreement. dagen: the front page of the new york post saying it s time for the feds to charge him already. dana: fox team coverage shannon bream with a look at the timing of all of this just before the mid-term elections. first david spunt starts us off at the justice department. good morning, david. good morning to you. our sources are telling us that this investigation is at a sensitive and critical stage. it has been that way for several months right now as you mentioned it began in 2018. we re also told at fox news that the investigation has moved from the f.b.i. to the u.s. attorney in delaware and investigators are no longer actively collecting evidence in this case. this coming with a source with knowledge of the investigation. the washington post yesterday was out with this report that agents believe prosecutors have enough evidence to charge